the royal dutch shell refinery in martinez, california. we were told they were offline for maintenance. so these two refineries being down, well obviously then your prices are going to go up. that's what drove up the gas prices in california despite all the other factors saying that prices shouldn't have gone up. that was in may. and people in california were ovb obviously prepared to accept that explanation. history had prepared us to accept that explanation. however, check this out. earlier this month apache news service got a report that looked at a document, thousands of environmental documents from a point in thyme when those refineries were supposedly offline. down for maintenance work. right? here's out mcklatch chi explains. at a time in may, reported down for maintenance for two weeks, it appears to have been making gasoline for at least half that time. state environment records show. nitrogen oxide emissions have returned to normal at the refinery, a full week before it was reported to have come back online. really? similarly, ch